Israel: Kan 11 — - 3.

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סיפורו של ההיפ הופ הישראלי. ישראלים עצבניים 1996-2001: ההיפ הופ מפגיש בין סאבלימינל, הדג נחש ודור שלם של יוצרים שלמרות המחלוקות בונים אוטופיה בין ימין לשמאל, מרכז ופריפריה, אשכנזים, מזרחים וערבים.כ עב ש.ח.

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00:00:00In the heart of this secular stronghold of alternative
00:00:03stand-up with us, and as if, and I also feel unrelated, I
00:00:07grew up in the settlement of Zuri Gal, I came as if I felt
00:00:11completely out of place. I think it's something that connected us, my nephew
00:00:14Bents. Educationally, she plays
00:00:17a corrupt and morally depraved manager, yes, which is
00:00:21a character you like in principle or what a fun celebration.
00:00:24Yes, is it a coincidence that most of these characters of yours are on
00:00:27the maniacal spectrum? Look, first of all, not
00:00:30all of them, but I have a lot of
00:00:33aggression, I have,
00:00:35I have, for years, I say that
00:00:39in my childhood I felt that I had no place
00:00:41to express, let's say, parts that are not so
00:00:45attractive to a parent, like tantrums or yelling
00:00:49that I'm bored or I don't want to eat this food or I want a Barbie or
00:00:53it wasn't there, so that created some kind of lack
00:00:56that today, just let me vent, just let me...
00:01:01put on a hat, put on a wig, connect me so that I can release
00:01:04this demon a little, this fuel of I'm
00:01:08a loser, I was blocked. Now
00:01:11you made this series out of it, now you're not a loser, right, now
00:01:15you're very successful, right, maybe you won't have
00:01:19fuel. There's no such thing, there's no such thing. First
00:01:23of all, it's fuel for life. After I ate Kobi, I can run
00:01:26with it forever. Go home and sit in the garden. Or on the roof
00:01:30or I don't know where you write or think, where you write or think in bed
00:01:34and get into bed, in bed and try
00:01:37to take some start of writing
00:01:40fun of what happened to you here yes from where will you start looking
00:01:43from the truth, meaning that you are very Ashkenazi
00:01:46okay, not denying, not denying
00:01:50okay
00:01:52and I oh yes
00:01:56and I it's a bit like my lady Anava, you understand, like that.
00:02:14Well done, I really love this series
00:02:17and and wonderful, beautiful Gotit
00:04:20We lived in a very extreme
00:04:22time.
00:04:25Nobody left the house, everyone stayed in their homes, a terrorist
00:04:29attack.
00:05:12There is our truth, to revolt against public injustices and pursue
00:05:15peace. At first, nobody gave
00:05:18a damn.
00:05:21Subliminal, Hadag Nachash, they are two writers of this thing
00:05:25called Israeli hip hop. They invented a new Israeli hip hop. They managed
00:05:28to figure out how to make hip hop, and still
00:05:31make it Israeli. This is the moment the scene was born, officially,
00:05:35it taught me what happens to us as a community, what
00:05:38happens when we connect?
00:05:47Zarzis is a small and charming town, located not
00:05:51far from the eastern coast of
00:05:53Tunisia.
00:05:55An ancient legend tells that the entire island is nothing but
00:05:59a chunk of land that broke off the land of
00:06:01Israel. According to the wise men of the community, the island
00:06:05was nicknamed Djerba a corridor
00:06:07to Jerusalem.
00:06:09My father, Hamos Twito, came to Israel. At the age of six,
00:06:13on the ship "Independence,"
00:06:15they arrived in Israel with nothing and kissed the sand, and from the moment they
00:06:19landed here with nothing, they sent them
00:06:21to Ma'abarot.
00:06:24My father worked from morning till night, my
00:06:27mother was a homemaker, and when
00:06:30I was born, my father came to the hill opposite
00:06:34Tzahal, what is now Shikun Dan, and said,
00:06:37"The pilots live here. My son will grow up with the pilots' sons, maybe
00:06:41he'll become a pilot."
00:06:48No, it didn't happen,
00:07:03I grew up in a kind of school where if you came with a small Star of David,
00:07:06even if you put it inside your shirt, they would call it "gourmet" and they would
00:07:10tell you that you are a hooligan and that was it. You are going to set up with
00:07:13gourmet? We live in North Tel Aviv, it's a place that
00:07:17is very different from the values I grew up with at home.
00:07:21At my house, they spoke Persian and Arabic and listened to
00:07:23Mizrahi music. I was for everyone either a
00:07:27religious person or an Arab, they couldn't stand me
00:07:31at all. And I was like
00:07:32an outcast.
00:07:35The music that was dominant was Israeli music, Israeli
00:07:38rock. That God created darkness.
00:08:12And I admire her, indeed, in the United States, they seemed to me like something
00:08:15good, it's also a sacred year in hip hop,
00:08:19'92, '93, wow, it's everything, it's Jay-Z, it's Biggie, it's
00:08:22Nas, it's Wu-Tang, Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, everything happened
00:08:26that same year, an album came out, and I wore that
00:08:29album out, I became the band, speaking
00:08:33their language, dressing like them, I suddenly lived them, I suddenly
00:08:37had a channel for something that spoke
00:08:39to me.
00:08:45The realization that this is what I had to do hit me
00:08:48when I heard Biggie's album. Biggie made me
00:08:51understand that, like, wow, this is something I'm going to do my whole life. This
00:08:55is the tool, this is my tool. When Biggie came,
00:08:58one came who was all that gangster shit
00:09:01himself, but he has a sensitive soul
00:09:04inside him, he has some depth, some something
00:09:08that... makes me feel
00:09:11"foesby."
00:09:42I didn't believe it was possible to do it in Hebrew until friends from the US
00:09:46told me, "You came from the Holy Land, do rap in Hebrew." I told
00:09:49them, "It's not cool." "No, you
00:09:53have to." So I made them put on a beat and the
00:09:57studio fell silent.
00:10:00They say, "You understand what you did? You're doing rap
00:10:03in the holy tongue. You're doing something of ours from here. You're doing it
00:10:07in a 2000-year-old language on the other side of the world. It's
00:10:10crazy."
00:10:16I remember a phrase from which, for me, it was the phrase
00:10:19that gave birth to Hebrew hip-hop:
00:10:23"Words flowed in your head like good."
00:10:27A phrase, suddenly I wrote something that I said, "This
00:10:31is a phrase that is only ours, there is no translation for it
00:10:34in English."
00:10:39Suddenly I really remember that visually,
00:10:42it seemed to me as if I had put my foot in a barren
00:10:46desert that no human foot had ever
00:10:48trodden.
00:10:55So it was like the world opened up to me, wait, why don't I put these things into my text, why
00:10:59don't I put in our jokes, why not the slang, why not the language my father
00:11:03speaks to me at home, what am I writing? Like this is now some Shakespeare in some
00:11:06book, no, wait to speak like I
00:11:09speak, I started to think, wait, what else do we have,
00:11:13wait, maybe I'll start with a verse in "kosk"
00:11:16There is no "kosk" in English,
00:11:19from that second I started writing and I wrote
00:11:22verses for 20 years ahead.
00:11:32I was a very angry child, I was also a violent
00:11:35child, and I grew up in a house
00:11:39where police and enforcement officers came
00:11:41non-stop.
00:11:44My father used to buy what gift for his birthday, he bought me a boombox, a crazy
00:11:48system like that, it lasted exactly
00:11:52four days until they seized it.
00:11:55I felt like a lonely child, I felt like a poor child, I was really looking
00:11:59for myself, and what's funny is that amidst all
00:12:02this, hip hop
00:12:03came in.
00:12:06Suddenly I started listening to rap, it has lyrics, they're talking
00:12:10to me, I started connecting to this thing, they were incredibly
00:12:14anti-establishment, and that drove me crazy, and you start
00:12:18looking for clubs that play hip hop, bam,
00:12:21how do you find something like that?
00:12:25I discovered a club called Shabong. Suddenly
00:12:28I saw a strange kid, in pink jeans, a big black
00:12:32shirt like that, blonde
00:12:34braids, I'm begging to get in, they're not
00:12:38letting me in, outside I see another kid begging
00:12:42to get in, four and a half minutes later we both realize
00:12:45that we are both Tel Avivians with awards, dressed the same
00:12:48thing,
00:12:51we were drawn to each other like magnets, I don't know how to explain it, hugging.
00:12:55Best friends, I looked at him, and we immediately
00:12:58understood that we were the same kind of thing, without us knowing, we became
00:13:02the light
00:13:03and the shadow.
00:13:06Are you ready?
00:13:30And then he became my very best friend and really with me and we have like
00:13:34scenes with a comb in front of a mirror singing
00:13:37and he like hypes me up and that's where it all started and suddenly
00:13:40I found myself on stages with him, I didn't have a reference, for me
00:13:44there were things, there was "Hello guys, what's up, I brought
00:13:48you a song, something" and "Boys, faggots It's mind-blowing, it's mind-blowing,
00:13:51it's mind-blowing.
00:13:54It's cool. But it's not supposed to sound like that, the rap I
00:13:57listen to is aggressive. I felt that I needed to fight
00:14:01all the nonsense and all the jokes and all the rebellious
00:14:05youth. I wanted them to listen to the words, and I came to sing about serious
00:14:08things. Wait, I came to sing about our essence, about our
00:14:11identity, we are here because we have no
00:14:14other country.
00:14:17They raised, they raised the Zionist flag high.
00:14:20This Zionism will win. It's a joke to even
00:14:23call this a peace process. Return to
00:14:26the old ways, we will work together for the future of our country,
00:14:30together for the future of our people, together for the future of
00:14:33our state, they
00:14:35are afraid, they
00:14:38are afraid.
00:14:41Songs we made, brothers from a company also today,
00:14:44and I think everyone knows
00:14:47him.
00:14:50Yes,
00:15:45It wasn't out of some ideology to unite the people of
00:15:48Israel, it was to vent what makes me
00:15:51cry. As a teenager,
00:15:54you experience these things at the extreme
00:15:57base. Friends who exploded on buses,
00:16:01bodies flying in the air, and we
00:16:03saw them.
00:16:08We wanted to scream.
00:16:21I got on bus line 480 from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv.
00:16:25Let's say by the time everyone was already sleeping
00:16:28on the bus, and I heard the engine hum.
00:16:32I hear.
00:16:38struggling like that on the ascents
00:16:40and "peace, salaam, peace" got stuck in my head.
00:16:43Peace,
00:16:49peace, salaam, peace, salaam, peace,
00:16:52salaam.
00:16:56At the end of the ride, I already had the song
00:16:58in my head.
00:17:00Jerusalem, we found a loving
00:17:04heart. We came to...
00:17:14And I grew up in a neighborhood in Jerusalem called Shmuel
00:17:16HaNavi. Sometimes I think about the building
00:17:20I grew up in. In that building there were
00:17:23haredim, new immigrants,
00:17:28secular people, Panthers, and also
00:17:31Palestinians, and something from that
00:17:34cultural environment, embedded not only in me, but in everyone who grew up there then.
00:17:39My parents are immigrants from the United States, they arrived here in the 60s, they
00:17:43were hippies, there was a Jewish connection, liberal
00:17:46Judaism, something that didn't really take root in Israel,
00:17:49unfortunately.
00:17:52And I used to go to synagogues on Shabbat, I remember people
00:17:56singing in the synagogue and being very
00:17:57moved.
00:18:06And then you understand.
00:18:37After that,
00:18:40and when I thought about how I think one should live life in the everyday Israeli
00:18:43reality, and what values
00:18:47guide me, I had a lot of material for songs, and what's also
00:18:51nice, no one wrote about
00:18:52it.
00:18:55I recorded this "shalom salaam peace" in a studio here on Agrippas Street,
00:18:59a studio belonging to a ba'al teshuva. I was the first time he heard
00:19:02rap.
00:19:05And I distributed these singles in record stores.
00:19:09And Dudu Shavud
00:19:11was in one of the stores,
00:19:16I remember him picking up the disk in the store,
00:19:19only I don't know if I had already heard the song or not heard the song. I told him
00:19:23"Play it, come on, play it, play it, what do you care play it, play it, play it." He
00:19:27walked "Oh, here's punk and here's
00:19:30a statement." I see his face change and he's like,
00:19:33"What's that?" I approached Sha'anan,
00:19:37I said: "This song really moved me, and, I have
00:19:40a band, we really love hip hop, we really love punk, we also want
00:19:44to say something." So I invited him to jam
00:19:47with us.
00:19:52So it was Friday, we met at the Yellow Submarine
00:19:55at noon, we started playing, jamming,
00:19:59I remember he arrived and was a bit strange but interesting,
00:20:02and he called himself Hadag Nahash, he was such a crazy
00:20:06character.
00:20:19What a calm morning jam, three chords, I'm not in my league, that's what I felt, these are crazy
00:20:23musicians, and I,
00:20:26this idiot with the sheet of paper,
00:20:30and then Sha'anan actually started reviewing it, writing about
00:20:33it, and Sha'anan also wrote differently, he wasn't, he didn't
00:20:36write about. A place of "I and I and I and I" but wrote more
00:20:40socially, it was a separation like that, everyone suddenly
00:20:43found their role and slowly it was like, wow, it's
00:20:47working, you're cool, and that's it. This is the band to
00:22:51We lived in a very extreme time, in a very
00:22:55extreme place. Listen, people had nothing to eat,
00:22:58there was fear to even leave the house, there was a film of fear, there was
00:23:02a recession here, and on the other hand, brother, there are constant terror attacks, we didn't have a drop
00:23:05of air to breathe, brother, we felt suffocated,
00:23:07we drowned.
00:23:10I felt from the beginning of my journey that I had a mission in music, and I
00:23:14think that these songs have power, we have a meaning that is much more important
00:23:18than music.
00:23:20We wanted to convey the message, our pain, we had something to say, we are
00:23:24drowning here, someone
00:23:25listen.
00:23:31I was in a mood of,
00:23:35either this is going to be huge or I'm going to die trying. Listen, it's
00:23:38from above how it came to us, with the sampling
00:23:41of the violins, with the piercing message, and with Momi
00:23:45doing R&B that hasn't been heard yet in Israel, let's
00:23:48grab the audience. In the end,
00:23:51they will go in there because of the chorus but will stay there because of
00:24:50Tel Aviv, which wanted to be New York, suddenly had a right-wing text. There was
00:24:53power in it, it felt new.
00:26:02Please welcome Hadag Nahash. What do you call what you
00:26:06do? Do you call names? It's Israeli punk hip hop
00:26:09in Hebrew. The songs are about the difficulty of living in the country,
00:26:12the individual versus the establishment and things like that. We want
00:26:16to bring some groove here
00:26:16to the country.
00:26:23We knew this wouldn't come easily. We knew we had to work
00:26:27hard. We started performing and received the love of
00:26:30the audience. It felt like we were almost there.
00:26:36We tried going to record companies, they told us all sorts of irrelevant things, it's too
00:26:40critical, it's too political, they won't play it on the radio,
00:26:44hip hop won't succeed in Israel, rap won't succeed in Israel, you say, it
00:26:47can't be that they're so enthusiastic and there's no
00:26:50place for it.
00:26:55I remember we courted Yossi, we said wow, if Yossi
00:26:59produces us, wow how amazing, what a great producer.
00:27:02In Israel, who knows how to work with a band, there was only
00:27:06one.
00:27:13I start to hear about Hadag Nahash again and again, Hadag Nahash, Hadag
00:27:16Nahash, and they organized a show at the Barby, I said, "Come on, I'm
00:27:20going to see them." I walk in, I see Kobi
00:27:23Oz.
00:27:29Who here feels that they love their bank? For them it's a difficult
00:27:33feeling, they just take your money, there's no reason, it can
00:27:36be zero, not three shekels, not nine shekels,
00:27:39zero shekels for debit and credit. If it doesn't
00:27:43go my way, it's the highway.
00:27:45Okay, I'm aware of this and I blame myself for it.
00:27:49To say I want zero, I want zero, they don't give easily.
00:27:52Competition in banks starts
00:27:55now.
00:27:58Hey sisters, there's no plot, blue and white vacation.
00:30:02Today, on every station, you can hear Mizrahi
00:30:05Arabic and hip hop. I opened a label called Levantine,
00:30:08I looked for people who would say something new
00:30:12and would manage to say it cool. And we both stood pretty close to
00:30:16each other and saw the same thing.
00:30:19I see them and I'm not
00:30:21impressed. I see Sha'anan coming up with long
00:30:25hair like this, up to here, what kind of hip is that with long
00:30:28hair? Hadag Nahash were more or less.
00:30:32Everything I dreamed of in a band. He identifies Hadag Nahash
00:30:35and I, I'm like really not, they weren't a stereotype of
00:30:39hip hoppers, they were the thing itself, they were
00:30:42punk, and about this there was an opinionated person who said
00:30:46his things. Kobi Oz was like, "I have a label
00:30:48and... Let's meet." The audience needed
00:30:51to understand that they were more than hip hop. I remember him telling
00:30:55us, "We have an amazing team, we
00:30:58just need to score
00:31:48remember him going and bringing
00:31:49Mazi Cohen.
00:31:53He spoke to me in English. me for a sandwich
00:31:57in a cafeteria in space. So we thought about "I
00:32:01don't give up," "I don't," which is the most
00:32:04amazing thing in the world.
00:32:08And I thought that Mazi Cohen symbolized something rooted
00:32:11and Israeli, and through Mazi Cohen's voice.
00:32:48A group of people who sat down and split the atom on a
00:32:52musical level. I remember all of us heard the song on the radio for the first
00:32:55time and there was the chart, forget about the chart, there's no way it's getting in,
00:32:59highest entry of the week, Hadag Nahash,
00:33:02"I Don't Give Up." It was such an illuminating moment.
00:33:06It's hard to describe that feeling, everything started happening, everything started
00:33:09moving, and Kobi Oz,
00:33:12bless his heart, opened the door for us. This
00:33:24is not some ghetto
00:33:29thing with black people and white police, it's something new
00:33:32Israeli.
00:33:36We called ourselves Takt and we had a street team, this street team
00:33:40was built like an army, we created an audience,
00:33:43brother, that if we perform anywhere, serious fans come who want to hear
00:33:47us and know the songs by heart.
00:34:12We wanted to eat.
00:34:15The stage in the name of what we do.
00:34:19Thank you very much. By the way, the comment, I don't know if you noticed,
00:34:23but we as a society, we've been eating
00:34:25shit for a long time. We don't deserve to eat shit. It's time
00:34:29for it to stop,
00:34:30s-h-i-g-a.
00:34:37Our alliance is dedicated today to hip hop. Hip hop, hip hop. Hop, rap. There is now
00:34:41a whole culture and a whole fashion of rap. Israeli rappers
00:34:45are now in a very strong surge. This dialogue takes place between very
00:34:48diverse and very different groups in Israeli society, and everyone chose to talk to
00:34:52each other through music.
00:34:55When it starts to happen, it's something.
00:34:59You become part of people's lives suddenly. You see
00:35:02that spark in their eyes. You see the enthusiasm. You understand that it's not
00:35:06just anything.
00:35:11It feels like a mountain about to erupt. You feel everything shaking.
00:35:15You say, "Wait, an earthquake? This is not the event here, something very
00:35:19big is about to happen."
00:35:25Nobody knew where it would go, you know. Nobody knew, but what
00:35:28we discovered was that people were interested in seeing this thing
00:35:32and a movement was created. Come on, I'll say this word that I love but I'll
00:35:35stop. Stop with me. The claim of Israeli
00:35:38hip hop.
00:36:15It was really a cultural home and all the rap kids were there. We felt
00:36:19like strange outsiders, but something about the madness made us feel
00:36:23at home. Many people who dressed like you, looked like you and talked about verses.
00:36:26Bring stickers. Bring, that's what Boika, bring Boika. If
00:36:30you wanted to progress somewhere, to become someone, something
00:36:33somehow you had to sit there in the store, he
00:36:36built a studio and he was recording music. It starts with clothes
00:36:40and then with music. I was quite young, suddenly I became
00:36:43a big shot. He helped me greatly to cross
00:36:46the street.
00:37:23From 1992- 1993 I was a military diver.
00:37:29The more the army surprised me more and more, I said,
00:37:32"Okay, I like parties, I don't like
00:37:34the army." Let's go, let's open the G
00:37:38Sport.
00:37:45The G Sport scene was a friendly gathering between people
00:37:49who love rap, who live all over Israel, from Eilat to
00:37:52Rosh Pina. I walk in, I'll never forget it, after
00:37:55the pictures of the Fugees and The Score. And everything
00:37:59was hip hop, like the whole place, and I'm standing there, shocked, with my friends,
00:38:02and it's like, what's this? Everyone's a rapper here, everyone's
00:38:06cool
00:38:07too.
00:38:10We were also ICQ friends and we used to meet at G Sport
00:38:14and of course in freestyle circles with an open
00:38:17microphone, all the young rappers who waited all night just for this
00:38:20moment, going up with their very unprepared songs
00:38:24and performing them for the first time in front of a live audience. Suddenly, wow,
00:38:28there's a lot of Israeli
00:38:29hip hop.
00:38:33Hello and good
00:38:35evening,
00:38:41yes, Uri and Magic from Hadar,
00:38:43opening, we are
00:38:45bombed.
00:38:48We wanted to make a stage for ourselves, and then we said,
00:38:51"Okay, there are all sorts of hip hop nights, but people go up
00:38:55and do it in English and that's not interesting. Let's do it in Hebrew,
00:38:58with an emphasis on an Israeli hip hop night." And then we said
00:39:02at the end, "Okay, what should we call it?" "Hashguzim." Hashguzim night,
00:39:05Hashguzim, Hashguzim nights, Hashguzim gatherings,
00:39:08Hashguzim, Hashguzim night, Hashguzim, Hashguzim, Hashguzim,
00:39:12Hashguzim nights. We said, "Okay, of course, Hashguzim,"
00:39:15and the title "Israeli Hip Hop Hizugim."
00:39:19And that's how "Hashguzim" became a good night.
00:39:23Hashguzim,
00:39:25good night, how fun, so many.
00:39:59It's a dream for so many people who didn't find
00:40:02themselves and suddenly they have this, they have this outlet,
00:40:05a whole evening where all the rappers come, each one brings all his
00:40:09friends, they go up on stage one after another and perform their songs.
00:40:13There's a community
00:40:15and there's a culture that didn't exist until now. We're part of a group, we're part
00:40:19of a tribe, and we held onto each other.
00:40:22Okay, before we start, I want to wish
00:40:25you all the best from the bottom of my heart.
00:40:31You see the guys from Takt and you see the guys from Tamar and Dam, and you see
00:40:34the guys from Hadag, how different we are and how different our reality was, somehow
00:40:38this love, this home, this mother united
00:40:40all of us.
00:40:49We reached a boiling point, the culture war
00:40:52in full swing. The right is organizing with the slogan "the strong will defeat
00:40:55the settlers."
00:41:27Together, I want to see Ashkenazim, Sephardim,
00:41:30Ethiopians, all one people, everyone who wants to be one people, I
00:41:33die. Listen, at that
00:41:36time, every success of someone was a celebration of all
00:41:40of us, of the whole scene, even though there were
00:41:43circles, there were it was still under one united
00:41:47tribe, Israeli possession, although we didn't always
00:41:50see eye to eye, we understood that it was important
00:41:53that we move in the same direction together, we loved
00:41:56hip hop, brother, hip hop connected us, today I would tell you that it's a utopia, there's
00:42:00a mythological picture like that of the entire hip hop generation, with
00:42:04Shabak, Subliminal,
00:42:06Hadag, we were all Together, we were all.
00:42:10To make this dream happen, hip-hop in Hebrew
00:42:12happen.
00:42:18I don't believe what
00:42:21beauty.
00:42:23You guys are in Eilat for the first time? Everyone.
00:42:26Everyone. Amazing. That was
00:42:29a dish, a dish. A hot
00:42:32dish.
00:44:20to present
00:44:22to the world a crew
00:44:25of
00:44:26rappers.
00:44:32A showcase of Israeli rap and reggae.
00:44:36An identity card. This is the story. I think
00:44:40it was the first time, let's say, the first time that they really
00:44:43gathered all the rappers
00:44:46who were in that generation of the founders
00:44:48of hip-hop.
00:44:54And something happened there that hadn't happened before and hasn't happened since. All sorts of poles met
00:44:58there. Sabbalim met
00:45:01and HaTzel with Nini and Kuami
00:45:04and Kotig'. And HaDag Nachash, what
00:45:07water. How do you do that?
00:47:35I think it did a good job, it did a good service to Israeli hip-hop. Here it
00:47:39is, a moment that we are talking about 20 years later, and
00:47:42not everything was so lovely when
00:47:46we did it, but
00:47:49still the desire to be together and do something together. It overcame
00:47:53everything, which I think since
00:47:55then, it has already less overcome everything, everyone went their own
00:47:59way.
00:48:01Look, it was, you see it
00:48:03as the beginning of something, it was perhaps the swan song,
00:48:07too. After that, it also
00:48:10falls apart.
00:48:15The separation barrier is a fait accompli,
00:48:18115 kilometers of fences
00:48:20and obstacles.
00:48:52Who, who, who, who, I didn't hear, without a badge, without
00:48:56porters, without anyone, whoever entered us, they wanted to.
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